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In Israel, any man with uncombed hair may name himself a prophet, and anoint any ambitious general king in the name of God, but the people of Judah will only follow a son of David. And only Jehosheba, and Jehoiada, and my nurse knew that that was not what I was. So I, Koheleth, was king in Jerusalem.

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In which Miss Hilary Thorpe and Gerald, Viscount St. George, freshly released from Oxford upon an unsuspecting Britain, try to do one of Hilary's friends a simple favour with disastrous consequences; Lady Winifred Wimsey tries her hand at detective work; and Charles Peter Parker, aged five-and-a-quarter, single-handedly repels the German invasion.